history of medicine
How should a normal person decide what's true?: Institutional trust
The pump handle In 1854, John Snow removed the handle of the Broad Street pump. He did not conduct a focus group. He did not invite Soho residents to do their own research on waterborne disease. He had a map, a theory, and the authority to act.... It's time to make circumcision illegal. Here’s the deal.
I believe it’s time to abandon this outdated procedure. It’s easy to maintain personal hygiene today and have access to healthcare, which were the two, IMO, worthy arguments for allowing this procedure.
The others- cultural, religious, or aesthetic arguments are outdated.
I think that a lot of religious reasons are similar to why we have the Center for Disease control. I can’t imagine smegma in the vaginal canal is a good outcome for a woman. I think when bad health outcomes occurred it was taken as a sign from God that something was off....